Both England and Germany have recently been basing their claims to parts of black Africa on the wishes and interests of the black inhabitants.
In black Africa today there are more than a thousand government schools and some thirty thousand mission schools, with a more or less regular attendance of three-quarters of a million school children.
One more long easterly stride, across the Atlantic, brings black Africa, and completes this rapid run around the globe, so far as distinctly heathen lands are concerned.
Through it the Cross preceded the Crescent in some of the remotest parts of black Africa.
To this "white" race Semitic Asia, a large part of black Africa, and all Europe was supposed to belong.
